[PATCH] x86: Disable 2 tests with large memory requirement

["H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>]

[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1200 bytes --]

On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 4:33 PM Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 08:54:49AM -0700, H.J. Lu wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 25, 2022 at 8:33 PM Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Mon, Apr 25, 2022 at 08:20:50PM +0200, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> > > > I think we should try to keep builds/checks under 10 minutes, that the
> > >
> > > Related to that, there are some x86_64 gas and ld tests that I find to
> > > be annoying resource hogs when running multiple binutils target builds
> > > in parallel.  gas/testsuite/gas/i386/rept and
> > > ld/testsuite/ld-x86-64/pr17618 both require over 1G of memory.
> > >
> > > HJ, would you please look at reducing the memory footprint of those
> > > test?
> >
> > These tests check if large memory footprints are handed properly.
> > What do you recommend?
>
> Delete the gas test.  For the ld plt overflow test, don't use .space
> in the .s file to create a huge .text section, instead use a linker
> script to place sections so as to cause the address overflow.  Or just
> delete the ld test too.  What future failure does it prevent?  Someone
> deleting the plt overflow checks?
>
>

I am disabling these tests.



--
H.J.

[-- Attachment #2: 0001-x86-Disable-2-tests-with-large-memory-requirement.patch --]
[-- Type: text/x-patch, Size: 1470 bytes --]

From 69f1317da0d9781c13dbf91a607f4bc80cfcf638 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2022 11:26:44 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] x86: Disable 2 tests with large memory requirement

gas/

	* testsuite/gas/i386/i386.exp: Disable rept.

ld/

	* testsuite/ld-x86-64/x86-64.exp: Disable pr17618.
---
 gas/testsuite/gas/i386/i386.exp   | 3 ++-
 ld/testsuite/ld-x86-64/x86-64.exp | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gas/testsuite/gas/i386/i386.exp b/gas/testsuite/gas/i386/i386.exp
index 2c84ccc62b4..1e10277da31 100644
--- a/gas/testsuite/gas/i386/i386.exp
+++ b/gas/testsuite/gas/i386/i386.exp
@@ -726,7 +726,8 @@ run_list_test "string-bad" ""
 run_list_test "reg-bad" ""
 run_list_test "space1" "-al"
 run_list_test "xmmword" ""
-run_dump_test rept
+# Disabled due to large memory requirement.
+# run_dump_test rept
 run_dump_test pr19498
 run_list_test "nop-bad-1" ""
 run_list_test "unspec" ""
diff --git a/ld/testsuite/ld-x86-64/x86-64.exp b/ld/testsuite/ld-x86-64/x86-64.exp
index f337b485901..1a7d1eddc97 100644
--- a/ld/testsuite/ld-x86-64/x86-64.exp
+++ b/ld/testsuite/ld-x86-64/x86-64.exp
@@ -2314,8 +2314,8 @@ run_ld_link_tests [list \
     ] \
 ]
 
-# Linux only tests
-if { "$LD_CLASS" == "64bit" } then {
+# Linux only tests.  Disabled due to large memory requirement.
+if { "x$LD_CLASS" == "64bit" } then {
     # This test needs 64-bit linker.
     run_dump_test "pr17618"
 }
-- 
2.35.1